factor v leiden deficiency is the most common hereditary hypercoagulable disease in the united states and involves 5% of the caucasian population. up to 30% of patients who present with deep vein thrombosis (dvt) or pulmonary thromboembolism present with this condition. this is a case report of a 36-year-old man who experienced one episode of dvt within the previous year and was admitted to our...

Educational websites and electronic encyclopaedias employ many of the same design elements, such as hyperlinks, frames and search mechanisms. This paper asks to what extent recommendations from the world of web design can be applied to e-encyclopaedias, through an evaluation of users’ browsing and searching behaviour in the free, web-based versions of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Concise Colum...

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...

An encyclopaedia is described as ‘a work containing exhaustive information on some one branch of knowledge’ (Oxford English Dictionary). This is truly a high pretension of Steven Yentis and his co-editors for their new edition of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine A–Z: An Encyclopaedia of Principles and Practice. According to the Preface, the authors have tried ‘to produce a readily access...

The paper outlines a Handbook being developed for distribution on the WorldWide Web. The Handbook combines an encyclopaedia with an annotated bibliography, tutorials, and links to community events and software. The Encyclopaedia and Annotated Bibliography form the center piece of the Handbook. Their development will be distributed amongst the community, driven by communityreviewing and authorsh...